installing ubuntu on a new system - questions

[bruce]

On Sat, Jul 19, 2025, 5:33 PM Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users <
ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 2025-07-19 at 13:38 -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
> > And I would guess almost the entire VPS sector uses it.  When I had a
> > batch of VMs on my (now dead) AMD ATX box, I used a LVM logical volume
> > for each VM I had.  (Actually I use a LVM logical volume for the one
> > x86_64 VM I have on my PI5.)
> >
> > Not using LVM means either just having one giant file system (a truely
> > horrible idea from a sane backup point of view), or having to grovel
> > with gparted on a live ISO on a USB flash drive whenever you need a
> > new parition or  need to resize partitions.  Been there back in the
> > olden days.  Ugh...  With  LVM one just uses lvesize / resize2fs -- I
> > even wrote a bash script to do this.
>
> Hi,
>
> I agree with Liam.
>
> Different approaches have their pros and cons.
>
> Given that the client will be using a 128G SSD and a 1T HDD, not much
> can get giant.
>
> Also, given the nature of the questions the OP is asking, LVM is surely
> far too complicated for the OP.
>
> the questions being asked primarily had to do with setting the lvm and
> portion data within  the ubuntu install gui.  as opposed to installing on
> the 128g drive and then setting up the 1tb lvm.
>

   but you do you


> I do have multiple VMs with giant files, but I know exactly where those
> files are. They are not randomly spread across multiple SSDs.
>
> Examples, a non-giant virtual disk file and two giant virtual disk
> files:
>
> $ /bin/ls -hAltr /mnt/winos10/winos10/*vdi /mnt/winos11/winos11/*vdi
> /var/lib/libvirt/images/mnt/vm.dedu.11/vm*
> -rw------- 1 root        root         72G Nov 25  2024
> /var/lib/libvirt/images/mnt/vm.dedu.11/vm.dedu.11
> -rw------- 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 737G Jul 13 23:22
> /mnt/winos10/winos10/winos10.vdi
> -rw------- 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 840G Jul 14 07:17
> /mnt/winos11/winos11/winos11.vdi
>
> If the partitions with the huge Windows (renamed to winOS ;) VDIs aren't
> mounted, I can run gprated from the running Linux and resize the
> partitions, no need to boot another Linux. FWIW you can use raw rather
> than a virtual disk file format and/or shared folders. Many more
> hundreds of GiBs for these Windows VDIs are stored via shared folders,
> otherwise they would be far more than twice as large.
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
>
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